Folding stove



March 9 1926. 1,575,831

J., HIGHA M FOLDING STOVE Filed August 18. 1922 JOHN m' ann',

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Patented Mar. 9, 1926.

To all whom it may concern: Be itknown that 1, JOHN HIGHAM, a citizen ofthe United States, residing at Los ,Angeles, in the county of LosAngeles and State of California, have invented new and usefulImprovements in Folding Stoves, of which .the following isaspecification.

My invention particularly pertains to a foldable stove which is designedespecially for use in the open. V My principal object is'to provide astove of the above Character which is adapted to burn a liquid fuel, andyet be utilized with solid fuel if occasion requires. 7

Another object is to provide a construction in the stove whereby it maybe employed both a s'a stove and grill, either with liquid or'solidfuel. j

Another object is to provide a foldable camp stove embodying hingedpanels adapted to be, positioned to form a cover for the stove, whenfolded, and to be arranged inan extended position to provide sideshelves on the stove and also to be disposed in a vertical positionto'serve as a wind-shield.

Another! object is to provide the stove with foldableleg-members ofsuchcharacter that they may serve to hold the foldable panels in theirclosed position. Another object is to provide a stove embodying' agrill-portion and a stove-portion with a burner arranged beneath each ofsaid portions, and embodying a valve for regulating one of the burners."

"With the foregoing objects in view, togetherwith such other objects andadvan tages as may subsequently appear, my invention consists of theparts and in the combination, arrangement and construction of partshereinafter more fully described and claimed and illustrated in'the'accompanying drawings, in which:- v

"Figure 1 is'a perspective view of the stove, showing it in its openposition, with the shelves extended.

' lfigQ is a perspective view of the stove, showing the shelves invertical position and forming-a wind-shield.

. Fig. 3.,is a detail in perspective, illustrating the manner of foldingthe shelves to form-a cover for the stove, and illustratin the manner inwhich the cover may be hel VHIGHAM, OF LOS.ANGELES,CAL1FORNIA; .4

" nonninefsrovnf g1 its closed position by a foldableleginem- Fig. 4 isa detail in section as seen on the limited of Fig. 2 showing theremovable gri I .Morespecifically, 10' indicates a burner housing, whichis boX-like'in form, andlconn prises a bottom-wall, end-walls 12 andQ13, and side-walls 14 and 15, and providedwith a demountable top member16, comprising an integral plate-portion 17 1 and a grill-portion 18;the top member being supported upon projections 19 on the housing, andheld in spaced relation to the bottom of the housing and positioned on aplane below the'upper edge of the housing asv particularly shown in Fig.4, whereby cooking utensils positioned on the top member will havetheirbottom portions projecting below the upper margin of the burner housingso. that the area of impingement of the fiamesifron'i' the burner on theutensils will be protected from wind, thereby making it possible toobtain the full benefit of the flame. The top member 16 is adapted to belifted from the housing and to be used independent thereof when it isdesired to employ the stove with solid fuel, andfor which purposethe topmember is provided with foldable legs 20,0n which it may be supported onthe ground. Hinged on one side of the housing is a panel 21, adapted tobe positioned to. extend over the top of the housing and form acovertherefor, and is also adapted. tobe positioned to extend to one sideofthe housing, as shown in F ig. 1, to form a'shelf; leg-members 22being pivoted on the outer edge of the panel 21 and adapted to bepositioned tovbear on the ground andform a support for the panel. todispose the latter in a horizontal position. Hinged on theends of the.panel 21 are panels 23 and 2 1, on the outer ends of which are hingedleg members 25 and 26forn1ecl of wire, having side members 27,connecting with the corners of the panels 23 and 24, which sidemembers-are connected together by a tie-member 28. Leg-members 25 and 26are adapted to be positioned-to rest on the ground and form supports forthe outer ends of the panels 28 and24, to hold thelatter substantiallyin alignment withthe panel 21, and are also adapted to be folded aga nsteither side of the panels 23 and 24 when folding the stove, which iseffected by folding the panels 23 and 24 against the panel 21, and thenfolding the panel 21 over the top memberof the stove housing.

Leg members 29 and 30 are provided at each end of the housing, each ofwhich is formed of wire, and comprises V-shaped end portions 31, one endof which is pivoted at 32 adjacent the corner of the housing.- The outerportions of the V-members are connected together by members 33, whichare adapted to bear against the under side of the hou'sing 'to limitswingingmovement of the leg-members in one direction and dispose them ina position to afford a support for the stove housing; The leg-membersare designed to be swung upwardly on their pivots 32 to dispose themembers 33 across the top of the stove housing transversely of the coverpanel 21 to hold the latter in its closed position, as shown in Fig; 3.

When it is desired to employ" the panels 21, 23 and 24 as wind-shieldsthe panel 21 is swung to a vertical position on the housing andthe'panels 23 and 24 areswungoutward- 1y to extend along the ends of thehousing, as'sho'wn in Fig. 2; the end panels 23 and 24 being, thenpositioned inside the end-walls 12' and 13 and resting on the coverpanel 16'.

Mounted within the housing is a burner 34, comprising a pair of spacedburner-heads 35 and 36, connected together by a conduit 37; extendingover burner 35 is a generator tube" 43 leading from any suitable sourceof hydro-carbon supply; being here shown as connected t'o'a reservoir46, through a regulating valve 47. The operation of the inventionisapparent from the foregoing.

It will beob'servejd that one of the burner heads is positioned beneaththe plate portion 17 of the top member 16 and the other burner head islocated beneath the grill portion 18 of the top member, whicharrangement'i's advantageous in that it adapts the device for employmenteither as a stove or as a grill or both ;'it being desirable in cookingoperations to place some articles to be cooked over an open fire, inwhich event the grill portion is employed, and in other instances toplace them where they will not be subjected to the action of open fire,in which event they are placed on the plate p0rtio'n'17.

By providing the top'member 1'6 with the plate portion 17 and grillportion" 18, and employing the same in combinationwith the doubleburner-heads, the use of separate plates't'o cover a burner is obviatedThe top member 16 being'demountable is adapted to be positioned in theburner housing with the plate'portion 17 extending" over either of theburner-heads 35 and 36, which is desirable inasmuch as there are timeswhen" only one of tliebuinei lieads need be employed, -which, with theburner constructed as here shown, would be the burner indicated at 35;the burner 36 only being operated in conjunction with burner 35; and inlike manner the grill portion 36 may be positioned over the burner asdesired.

I claim:

1. In a folding stove, a box-like burner housing, having bottonr, sideand end walls, a demountable top member for said housing comprising aone piece plate portion and grill portion, and a double burner arrangedin said housing with one burner disposed beneath the plate portion andthe other burner located beneath the grill portion of the top member;said top member being adapted to be disposed to locate the plate portionor the grill portion over either burner.

2 In a folding stove, a box-like burner housing having bottom, side andend walls, a burner in said housing,- a' top member on said housinghaving an integral plate portion and grill portion, a cover panel hingedto said housing ad ap'ted to be folded over the top member 'and to beextended to one side of the" housing to form a shelf, means forsupporting said cover panel in its extended position, a panel hinged toeach end ofsaid top panel adapted to extend at an angle to the panel oron a plane therewith, and meansfor supporting said end panelssubstantially on a' plane with a cover panel when the latter is disposedhorizontally;

3. In a folding stove, box-like burner housing having bottom, side andend walls, a burner in said housing, a top member on said housing havingan integral plate portion and grill portion, a cover panel hinged tosaid housing adapted t'o' be folded over the top member and to beextended to one side of the housing to form a shelf, means forsupporting said cover panel in its extended position, a panel hinged toeach end of said cover panel adapted to extend at an angle to the panelor'on a plane therewith, and means for supporting said end panelssubstantially on a plane with a cover panel when the latterisdi'sp'os'e'd' horizontally, said end' panels also adapted to be"folded against the cover panel when the latter is folded over thehousing and a pair of leg members pivoted at each end of said housing;the leg members of each pair being connected by a cross bar adapted toextend beneath the housing and to abut thereagainst to limit pivotalmovement of the legmeinber's' in one direction and also adapted to" bepositioned to extend across, the top of the housing in engagement withthe folded cover panel to hold the latter in its folded position.

4. In a folding stove, a box-like burner housing, a! cover panel hingedto one sideof said housing adapted to be positioned to extend overthehousing or to one sidethereof, leg members hinged on said coverpanel, end

panels hinged on said cover panel, leg memhousing, having bottom, sideand end Walls, bers hinged on said end panels, said end a burner in saidhousing, a top member on 10 panels being adapted to fold against thesaid housing having a plate portion and a cover panel, and leg memberspivoted on the grill portion, said top member being remov- 5 housingadapted to engage the cover panel. ably supported in said housing, andarto hold the latter and the end panels in their ranged on a plane belowthe upper edge of folded position on the housing. said housing.

5. In a folding stove, a box-like burner JOHN HIGHAM. a

